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Today on the Playbook podcast, it's Decision Day at the Supreme Court. The U.S. military

buildup and Iran continues, and the latest readings on the state of economy are due. Hello, I'm

Adam Wren. And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Friday, February 20th. It once again is a decision day

at the Supreme Court. And once again, we're all wondering if they're going to Rickroll us on the only two

SCOTUS decisions that politics and White House watchers care about right now in a

midterm year. And the first one of those is on tariffs. We have been expecting that. I think I

wrote about it for Playbook in January at the Detroit Auto Show. We are

waiting on that any day now because essentially it's going to potentially reshape the midterms

in some key battleground states. There are some Republicans running for office who would rather

be running in an environment where the tariff question is sort of equalized and not hanging over their heads.

Thinking of you, Mike Rogers, if you're listening in Michigan.

And then there's another decision that they are set to make.

And that's about the Voting Rights Act.

And if they decide to strike down or gut the Voting Rights Act, that could put as many as 19 congressional

seats in play in a midterm year. And so we are waiting for these two consequential decisions,

but Megan, we checked in with our veteran court watcher Josh Gerstein this week, and he tells us

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